Instructions

Hello and welcome. This forum was created for members around the world who are working on the Devil's Lane animated mini-series as well as any future projects. Please take a couple minutes to read the rest of this section so everyone knows what is expected.
Here are a couple of the reasons I created this forum:

1. To have a place where all aspects of the project can be discussed as a group
2. Organization (assigning tasks, setting goals and time lines, etc.)
3. Address any problems that may come up
4. Member input: all opinions and ideas are valued here

Celtx
Celtx is a free program that i would like everyone involved to download. It is a media pre-production program that I use for screenwriting, storyboarding and character profiling. I would like everyone to download it so we can all have a visual copy of the project in its pre-production state. It is only 14 Mb. I will upload the .celtx project file (which is less than 1 Mb) and we can all work on it together.

Other software I use:
I will be using Anime Studio Pro 8 to do all the animation. I use Photoshop CS4 for all the drawings. If you are contributing with the drawings you can use the software of your choice as long as you can export to JPG or PNG, or better yet PSD or ANME.

If helping with the character creation i will make a separate post called "Characters" as well as a Youtube video as there is a specific way I would liked them to be created in order to animate them.

For the audio i will use Cakewalk Sonar but if you are helping with the audio I will make a post called "Audio." Please check there for further instructions.

Also, PLEASE read the post called "Styles" I will put examples of media that I would like the project to look like as well as what I would not like.

Once we have a full team I would like to do a very short animation from start to finish just so we get comfortable working with each other. I believe it would make the actual project run a lot smoother by addressing all the issues that will come up.

Thank you all very much for joining and I hope you are all as excited as me. I hope we all have fun creating this and that by the end we will have something worthy of showing off to friends, family and the rest world and for some of you worthy of adding to your résumé.

Any questions post them on the "Questions" section or e-mail me personally at faustus44@yahoo.com.

I will post instructions in this section and a link to a youtube video. There are specific ways that I would like the characters set up so that I can apply bones to them in anime studio and animate them.

This will be one of the most flexible areas as far as sharing content. You can use the software of your choice as long as you can export to JPG, PNG, PSD, or ANME. You can also draw on physical paper and scan your work. Let me know what you will be using and we'll go from there

This section is for people contributing with the audio which includes music, effects, mixing and mastering.
I will use Cakewalk Sonar for all the sound editing. if you have any concerns please let me know, i will update this as we go along.